3 x christmas

This is the 1st christmas this year, we celebrated the german way on the 24th in the evening at my Omas and Opas house. This is the picture before the "battle" began, all neat and tidy, haha. Oma and I cuddeling.

Howie unwrapping his Adidas soccer ball.

Look Mommy, I got a cool sweater from the Christkind!

Aunt Julia helping me to unwrap my presents. I was a little overwhelmed with all these presents and the lights. I liked it best when someone was with me to help.

Mommys surprised look when her present from daddy was wrapped in "racing" paper. Daddy ran out of paper, so this was all that was left over.

Howie posing with his new Adidas wristbands and new Wiesbaden T-shirt.

The group foto at my Omas and Opas house. Lilly our dog wanted to be on the picture also, although she didn't look in the camera, haha.

This is our 2nd christmas on the 25th in the morning. Mommy and Daddy waited for us to get up, we went to bed very late, so we didn't show up for the presents until 10am!! We got tons of presents, so much to unwrap. Cool!

On the 25th in the afternoon we celebrated our 3rd Christmas at my Nonnos and Hillas house in Frankfurt. Great, more presents :-))

Nonno, me on my new tractor and Anna.

Nonno and me, having fun.

My uncle Sergio and his fiance Anna got me a backpack for Kindergarden. I love carrying them around. Here you see Mommy, Hilla and Julia sitting on the couch watching.

What else is in the box? Let's go and check it out. Nonno HEEEEELP! :-)

Mommy finally got the book "Marley & Me", she had it on Santas list for a loooong time.

Daddy and me - we were beat after all the yummy food and the tons of presents.

Merry Xmas

We wish you a very merry xmas with lots of joy and presents. May your year 2009 turn out to be the best ever, healthy and happy.

Hope to see you all soon in the new year :-)

painting

The other day we painted mommys and daddys bedroom. It needed a little help before the shipment from Texas will finally arrive in January. I helped Daddy to get it ready. I had lots of fun and needed a long bath afterwards, haha. Daddy busy...

Mom... I am busy painting! You always with your pictures! ;-)

Making pancakes with Tante.

My little sister

Yesterday we went to the doc to see my little sister Mia in 3D. Unfortunatly we couldn't get super duper pictures, but here you can see the face. The doc also checked her inner organs, brain, size, weight and tons of other stuff. Everything is looking just great, right on track to be born the 26th of march 2009.

Profile of the head, looks like she is defenitly going to have daddys nose, he? Haha.

our house

Sorry, sorry guys, I know I haven't been posting much lately. Since I spend most of my time on the couch making sure Mia doesn't decide to come early, I haven't really been out. But here are some pictures of our house I took about a week before we moved in. That was probably also the last time we saw sun here, haha. Typical Germany, what can you do.

this is the kitchen when the owners still lived in the house. Ours is still a little emptier, since we haven't received any of our things yet. It is so roomy and has a pantry.. in Germany a pantry, I love it!
This is the dining room how they had it. Very big windows and beautiful view into the fields.

This is the living room once again their stuff. Ours is all full of borrowed stuff and doesn't look like anything nice, so I'll take some pics when our stuff finally gets here in about 3-4 weeks.

Entrance...

..more entrance, left of it the 3 windows are pantry and kitchen. Upstairs are bathroom and bedroom.

Our "pool", lol. We'll see how it will be in the summer, the owners said it is about 5 feet deep, so that should be enough to cool us off in the 3 weeks of summer we'll have here in Germany, haha.

I took this picture from the front door of the kindergarden, this is how close to our house it could be for Gabriel. Unfortunatly they didn't have any space for him, but we're hoping with the new school year he can go there.

Back yard, not very big, but I guess that means less yard work?!

View from the garden to the terrace, living room, dining room and upstairs are the 2 other bedrooms. The ground level is a little further up, since the "downstairs" is a whole other appartment with 3 more rooms and a bathroom. Perfect for all the visitors that we're hoping are going to come :-) hint hint

no phone

We're finally in our new house, close to Darmstadt, but as it is, we have to wait until the 9th of december to have internet and a house phone. I will let you all know the details once it is hooked up. Take care of yourselves....